This image shows the wreckage of the plane arriving in South Korea to be investigated in 1990
Daily Mail: Female assassin who blew up passenger jet on the orders of Kim Jong-il, killing 115 people, reveals how massacre was carried out, details of the bomb, and how she SURVIVED swallowing suicide capsule
* Kim Hyon Hui was one of two agents behind the bombing of Korean Air Flight
* The Boeing 707 was brought down off the coast of Myanmar in November 1987
* In 1990 she was pardoned by South Korean President as she was brainwashed
* Now she has recalled how she carried out her lethal mission which killed 115
A pardoned former North Korean agent who blew up a plane killing 115 people has told how she carried out the attack by planting an explosive Panasonic radio in the overhead locker and failed to commit suicide afterwards.
Kim Hyon Hui was one of two agents behind the bombing of Korean Air Flight 858 from Baghdad to Seoul on 29 November 1987.
The Boeing 707 was brought down over the Andaman Sea off the coast of Myanmar two weeks before the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
All of the passengers and crew, most of whom were South Korean, were killed in the attack ordered by Kim Jong-Il, the son of then-leader Kim Il-Sung.
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WNU Editor: It is interesting that this news story is making a comeback 30 years after it had occurred and only a few days before the start of the Winter Olympics in South Korea.
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